Exam 7: Storage Devices

A technician has been asked to recommend a mechanical hard drive in a computer where performance is a factor.Which feature should the technician focus on? [ voltage output | voltage input | RPM | storage capacity | technology used ]

What type of memory do SSDs use? [ NVRAM | RAM | ROM | flash ]

A technician is working on a hard drive problem.You walk up and the technician tells you the drive has mounted but still doesn't operate.What does this mean?

Which hard drive installation step allows a drive letter to be assigned to all or part of a hard drive? [ partitioning | high-level formatting | mounting | low-level formatting ]

Which internal drive type is more likely to be seen in a new home computer today? [ ESDI | PATA | SCSI | SAS | SATA ]

Can SSDs have head crashes? [ Yes | No ] Explain your reason.

What is an advantage of having a drive that spins at a higher RPM?

Which RAID level provides fault tolerance and what is written on one hard drive is written to the second hard drive? [ 0 | 1 | 5 | 10 ]

What Windows tool is used to see whether a hard drive is recognized or is mounted, or whether there is an issue? [ Device Manager | Task Manager | Registry | Disk Management ]

What is an SSHD?

You use a Windows tool to manage a particular hard drive that came with the system.You see a partition marked as an EFI partition.What is the purpose of this partition?

How many total connectors attach to an internal SATA drive? [ 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 ]

What is the maximum number of devices that can attach to an internal SATA drive cable that attaches to the motherboard? [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 ]

Which hard drive step prepares the drive to use a particular file system? [ partitioning | high-level formatting | mounting | low-level formatting ]

Which Windows technology allows you to combine multiple hard drives of different types and/or internal/external to be seen as one hard drive to the operating system? [ VPN | virtualization | RAID | Storage Spaces | TPM ]

What are the three types of SATA devices? (Choose three.) [ 1Gb/s | 1.5Gb/s | 2Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 5Gb/s | 6Gb/s | 10Gb/s | 100Gb/s ]

List one instance when you might recommend an SSD over a mechanical hard drive.

What are two advantages of using SATA technology over PATA? (Choose two.)

What would be an advantage of converting a basic drive to a dynamic disk?

What is the most popular file system in use today? [ FAT | eFAT | exFAT | NTFS | FAT32 | FAT64 ]